• Persecutrix

    Full definition of persecutrix

    Noun

    persecutrix

    (plural persecutrices)
    1. (rare) A female persecutor.
      • 1868, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost Name...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still.
      • 1861, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia KnightShe is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.
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